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Personal info

Full name
ALLEN, Lee Walter
Date of birth
25 March 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Catawissa, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
13003297
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
3rd Battalion,
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 11 81

Immediate family

Members
Florence Thrash (mother)
Carol Levan (half-sister)
Glen Levan (half-brother)
Neil Levan (half-brother)
Marlin Levan (half-brother)
Darris Levan (half-sister)
Gloria Levan (half-sister)

More information

Pfc Lee W. Allen attended attended Berwick High School and worked in the production of beverages. His grandfather and grandmother James Trash and Alice C. Trash were his legal guardians.

He joined the Regular Army in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 12 September 1940. He served three years in the Quartermaster Corps at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland before volunteering for the paratroopers.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

He is remembered at the Pine Grove Cemetery Annex in Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.findagrave.com - Row Walker, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, Pennsylvania Veterans Compensation Application
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Row Walker / John, http://www.ww2airborne.us